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Playing foul, crying foul

The battle for power in Georgia risks getting out of hand

by on 13.02.2013 / 20:45 CET

Appeared in print on 14.02.2013

Despite mutual distrust and loathing, Georgia’s newly elected prime minister, Bidzina Ivanishvili, and President Mikheil Saakashvili have been trying to co-habit since the parliamentary election in October. This is commendable. Centuries of Georgia’s history have featured self-defeating political scheming, usually followed by national catastrophe.